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Document Type: Amendment Resolution

Date: 2016 Jun

Session: 32nd Regular Session (2016 Jun)

Agenda Item: Item3: Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

GE.16-11079(E)

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Human Rights Council Thirty-second session

Agenda item 3

Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,

political, economic, social and cultural rights,

including the right to development

Russian Federation: amendment to draft resolution A/HRC/32/L.28

32/… Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls,

including indigenous women and girls

1. Seventh preambular paragraph

The paragraph should read

Outraged by the continued persistence and pervasiveness of all forms of violence

against women and girls worldwide, including domestic violence, and emphasizing that

such violence is a violation, abuse or impairment of human rights and, as such, is

completely unacceptable,

2. Thirteenth preambular paragraph

The paragraph should read

Reiterating the need to intensify efforts at all levels to prevent and eliminate all

forms of violence against women and girls, including domestic violence, throughout the

world, and stressing that women’s economic, political and social empowerment is essential

for preventing violence and addressing the underlying causes of violence against women

and girls, including indigenous women and girls,

3. Paragraph 5

The paragraph should read

5. Expresses concern that domestic violence is the most prevalent and least

visible form of violence against all women and girls, and that its consequences are long-

lasting and profound, and affect many areas in the lives of victims and their communities;